Great to see embeddings getting some love outside the straight-up-ML space!
I had a non-traditional use case recently, as well. I wanted to debounce the API calls I'm making to gemini flash as the user types his instructions, and I decided to try a very lightweight embeddings model, light enough to run on CPU and way too underpowered to attempt vector search with. It works pretty well! https://brokk.ai/blog/brokk-under-the-hood